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Hoover. The quotation in the chapter " Rebirth of the
Piano " (page 194) is taken from the same volume, chapter
" Constantinople and the Balkans," by Isaiah Bowman.
39. Joseph Tumulty, On Wilson in Paris.
The author was for many years President Wilson's chief
private secretary. He had an inside knowledge of Wilson's
method of work, and of the growing difficulties which
Wilson encounted in Paris during the Conference. Devoted
and loyal to his master, he thinlca that loyalty must necessarily
mean lack of impartiality and that nothing that Wilson ever
did was not perfect. Though this curtails the value of his
book, it makes it also more human and personal. There
are some intimate details about Wilson's fight for the Treaty.
40. Robert Lansing, The Big Four (London, 1922).
This is the well-known book by the American Secretary
of State who accompanied Wilson to Paris and who, after
having been most antagonistic to PaderewskL's political
activities, became the greatest admirer of Paderewski the
statesman. Anyone interested in Paderewski should not
miss reading Lansing's chapter on Paderewski, most
enlightening both historically and psychologically.
41. Leon Bilinski, Souvenirs et documents (1924) (only in
Polish).
Leon Bilinski, a Polish economist, university professor and
politician, was on intimate terms with the late Austrian
Emperor, Francis Joseph, who made him twice his Minister
of Finance. In his two volumes Bilinski draws a very exact
picture of Austria's policy towards Poland and of the late
Emperor's own attitude towards his Galician province. In
July, 1919, Bilinski became FinanceMinister in Paderewski's
Cabinet, but the collaboration between the two men was
never a success. In his second volume Bilinski makes some
biting remarks both about Padere\vski's premiership and
about Mme Paderewska's political activities. The author
goes so far as to say that it was Paderewski's wife who " ruled